Niels was kind of surprised. "I guess, come ahead on." Not exactly nautical but good enough.CPO Olsen boarded, he set a smallish ditty bag on deck. "I...have leave coming and I'd like to join this menagerie for the trip down and back. I promise I'll stay out of the way." Nope," I said, "If you're riding you're driving. Otherwise get off," Grace and I broke into gales of laughter, "Captain." I see, getting free lessons, ya think?"Niels said, "I'll pay you five hundred dollars to run us down to. The girls had raved about the trip, repeatedly emphasizing how morally acceptable it'd been. Carol and Donna had enthusiastically wanted their very good friends, Diana and Claire, to come, convincing the Norris parents. As I was the sort of guy who even left the Aquatic Center when Diana arrived in the spirit of her parents' disapproval of my associating with Diana, they trusted that I wouldn't misbehave. Carol stressed that I did, after all, have God looking over my shoulder. How much avarice. Naan athaiku thaneer koduthen, athai neer kudithu vittu sombai kaiyil koduthaal appadi kodukum pozhuthu en kaiyai urasiya padi kuduthaal. Ennai paarthu kaama sirithu sirithaal, nanum kama siripu sirithen.Iruvarukum moodu eeri vitathu, athai sari naan kilambugiren endru solli andru kilambi vital.Athai kaalaiyil kolam poduvaal, appozhuthu naan en veetu motai maadiyil irunthu mulaiyai paarpen, adutha naal kaalaiyil motai madiyil irunthu athai muliayai paarthu kondu irunthen. Athai kolam poduvathu. If love remains, though everything is lost, we will pay the price, but we will not count the cost..."I spent the next few days in a different world. I was trying to figure out exactly why her whole story seemed to be untrue. She had never once been deceptive to me since I had come to Las Vegas. After the last night, though, everything seemed just like I had never left her in the first place. I couldn't shake the feeling that she really hadn't changed at all.I arrived for dinner at the specified.